Nature morte aux pêches (1881)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)

Nature morte aux pêches (Still Life with Peaches)
1881
Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 64.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Reviewers of the 1882 Impressionist exhibition were dazzled by this “very appealing” still life of “a certain fruit bowl of ‘Peaches,’ whose velvety execution verges on a trompe l’oeil.” Painted the previous summer at the country house of Renoir’s patron Paul Berard, it is one of two still lifes that feature the same faïence jardinière; the other version also belongs to the Metropolitan Museum (56.218). (MET)

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Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
Nature morte avec pêches et raisins
1881
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York